Hound will look for a custom configuration file named .hound.yml in the root directory of your project, which lets Hound know what linters to enable or disable. You can specify locations/paths to config that provide custom style rules. Here is an example:

scss: enabled: false

rubocop: config_file: .rubocop.yml

jshint: ignore_file: .jshintignore

In this example, review of SCSS is deactivated, a custom RuboCop configuration is provided for Ruby review and .jshintignore is specified to have JSHint ignore certain files.